Ddos

Apparatus: Distributed botnet, around tens of thousands of bots with their respective IP addresses A pass file of around 1000 entries with some normal passwords Default username: ‘admin’ Steps: WordPress 3.0 release before 3 years, users going on with ‘admin’ as their default username, and some usual password A brute-force with username: ‘admin’ and password from the above mentioned file The botnet, tries this attack on each and every wordpress portal available over Internet Objective: A well-planned distributed attack (just like itsoknoproblembro shook the banking world) against some hot-spot over the Internet. ...

Smurf It’s a version of Denial of Service attack – floods the victim with spoofed broadcast pings. A large number of pings are sent to the IP broadcast address of the victim, it responds back with broadcast to all the hosts – and these hosts simultaneously reply – causing a major lock in the network. Ping of Death A funny ping – ICMP packet is sent to the victim – which floods its buffer, causing the system to reboot or the network getting hanged. ...